1898 Brunswick Narrangasset Billiards Table

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By Ahlers & Ogletree

Feb 8, 2015 - Feb 9, 2015

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• Lot Description
  American, Late 19th century (circa 1890). Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company Narragansett model, quarter-sawn oak frame with rosewood accents. Pool table including rails with ivory inlaid diamond sights, Monach leather pockets, three section 1" thick slate top, with accessories including oak ball rack with scorekeeper, four shelves (for balls) slots for 8 sticks, a bridge and five sticks, a set of vintage billiard balls and a set of Belgian Aramith balls with wood rack, a vintage oak scorekeeper with ball rack, hand chalk mounted on oak board, cue chalk, plastic ball rack and brush. Length111", width 60.5", playing surface 100" x 50". From the 1908-1909 Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. catalog, page 16: A standard design which secured gold medal award at the Paris Exposition. Simple, but a perfect model. Manufactured under 18 construction patents awarded from 1892 to 1905. Furnished only in Quarter Sawed Golden Oak, in billiard, pool or combination. The construction is strictly first quality. The legs are secured to the framework with wooden dowels, reinforced with long iron bolts passing through the entire length of the leg to the top of the head-block, thus obtaining positive solidity. The slate bed is best quality Vermont one inch thick, the sections being joined with brass dowels and sockets, entirely eliminating screw holes in the slate bed--the method used in tables by other manufacture.The cushions are the celebrated quick acting Monarch, guaranteed the most perfect angle cushion in the world. Used by all professional players in America and Europe. The cushion rails are of extra heavy construction and firmly bolted to the slate bed. The cushion rail tops are veneered with rosewood, which does not change color, cannot be easily disfigured and does not have the objectionable features of a polished surface. This design will never become commonplace. Its lasting popularity is in its simplicity and perfect proportions. It has been said that the fraction of an inch either way in the length or Cleopatra's nose would have changed the destiny of empires. Correct proportion is the first essential in all things pleasing to the eye regardless of whether it be a woman's face or an article of furniture. As in speech, all rules must give way to euphony, so it is that correct proportion holds the place supreme in all shapes that the eye favors. This rule obtains to a marked degree in the Narragansett billiard table. We attribute to the fact that our steadfastly adhering to the exact lines of the original model the favor which this table has held for many years.

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